What happened
Alibaba Cloud entered the Philippine market in 2019, and on June 8, 2021, announced that it would complete the Philippines' first data center in Manila within the year, offering capabilities such as elastic computing, databases, security, networking, and machine learning and data analytics, and serving industries including fintech, e-commerce, education, and media. Prior to this, in 2020, it launched the 'Philippines Ecosystem Alliance' to support the government's 'Cloud First' policy, and committed to training 50,000 local IT talents and helping 5,000 enterprises migrate to the cloud by 2023.
Localisation & innovation
A localized data center aligned with the Philippine government's 'Cloud First' policy; cloud migration support and customized local-team services for the large number of local micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs)
Scale
Part of the three-year, US$1 billion Asia-Pacific investment (Project AsiaForward) — note that this is on an Asia-Pacific basis, not Southeast Asia specifically, and is not mentioned in this particular Alibaba Cloud press release; committed to training 50,000 local IT talents and helping 5,000 enterprises migrate to the cloud by 2023; has established partnerships with more than 20 organizations across retail, healthcare, fintech, ICT, BPO, media, education, and other sectors (company-disclosed)
Basis: company-disclosed
Sources & notes
Record note: A second data center in the Philippines was announced in July 2025 (going live in October). ⚠ 2026-09-13 全库回扫处置：本条经回扫对抗复核判定为 ANNOUNCEMENT_ONLY：deployment_status 由 Landed 暂降为 Announced-concrete，reliability 由 High 降为 Medium。依据：去重后仅 3 条 URL（other_sources_text 第 3 项与 source_url 连 ?_p_lc=1 参数都逐字相同，n_sources 由 4 修正为 3），底层事实源头只有 2021-06-08 Alibaba Cloud Summit 2021 同一场发布会。官方通稿为当事企业自家 Press Room，全篇未来时（plans to build / will be constructed / by the end of this year）；Rappler（Gelo Gonzales 署名）与 BusinessWorld（Arjay L. Balinbin 署名）确为独立一手采写，但同样只报道了这场发布会的「宣布」，支撑「已落地」的独立来源为 0。另按裁定，scale_usd_num=1,000,000,000 应置空或迁到 group 级字段（该数字不在官方通稿内，且不可跨记录求和）。须强调：本次降级是证据缺口驱动的暂降，不是认定从未落地。恢复 Landed 的唯一条件是补一条独立或监管来源证明马尼拉可用区已投运并给出投运日期——菲律宾 DICT / NPC 的在册或许可记录、开服后非发布会衍生稿的署名独立报道、或客户实际使用该可用区的第三方报道；届时 source_date 必须换成投运日，而非现有的宣布日 2021-06-08。
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